Antony Denyer

Mongo doesn’t appear to perform particularly well when querying large-ish collections with $or queries. For some reason, it can’t figure out which index to use and often ends up doing a COLLSCAN. Say you have the following document structure representing user transactions: [Read More]

When building systems you will quite often have to make the tradeoff between having a system that is loosly coupled or one that is simple. When we think of tight coupling we tend to think of it as a bad thing. But that is not always the case, you need... [Read More]

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Everyone knows that micromanagement is bad; it’s “common sense” right. So why is it so common that developers who become team leaders fall into the trap of becoming micromanagers? And why is it especially prevalent for accidental team leads? [Read More]

I’ve worked with many developers over the years. More recently the majority of them have been junior developers. When working with someone junior the best you can hope for is not net negative NNPP. By that, I mean that the developer doesn’t have any impact on the project. [Read More]